Love in 10 lines
Dunno what love is?
Ella sings love hurts
Love means the blues
Love tastes like tears
What is love then?
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Author: Carrick Cross
I.Write.Poetry.
Becoming
Beauty so
becoming
I’ve become
A broken record
When it comes
To the tune of you
Like a song
On the jukebox
I always pick you
D1 Continue reading Becoming
Station
If survival is unsatisfactory
Let’s lead the assembly
Let’s signal the troupe
To play, to cheer
What will be will be
Unless we find it first Continue reading Station
Peek
Last in line
Last to leave
I long to linger
To listen to learn
The lilting lounge lyrics
Of my soul’s singer Continue reading Peek
Soft
Like Sinatra says
Baby, you’re so soft
Soft slopes help a man cope Continue reading Soft
Burns
She burns like
Embers between the ears… Continue reading Burns
Want
her dream was Hollywood
his the holy hills of Nashville
she left him in Memphis
he left her wanting more
for good Continue reading Want
Torch
every night on the porch sits
eyes strained down the lane
can’t erase the heartstain
waiting still with torch lit Continue reading Torch
Flutter
your cage does not contain you
choices change the horizon
open locks new sunrises
creates luck fresh surprises
you know Continue reading Flutter
Invisible
I know you never meant to hurt me
You never really meant anything at all
Nothing you said nothing you did nothing you hid
But tit for tat or the opposite of that
Everything you said was everything I did
I’m invisible Continue reading Invisible
When
One trip to skip around the park
Two spins on the merry-go-round
Three swings with hair in the air
Four slides with hands up high
Five seconds one kiss one spark Continue reading When
Coast
If you’re just going to coast
You’ll turn out like most
Inside the entity called you
Is one who’s called to take terrible risks
Stretching toward the abundant life
Journeying straight to the source Continue reading Coast
Captured
He slid
From ethereal floors
Down empyreal bannister
Out golden doors
Now sodden earth Continue reading Captured
Warm
One last kiss
One last second
Sun peeks over the horizon
Leaking light Continue reading Warm
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A collection of micropoetry from Carrick Cross–Straight from the art. Continue reading 140
Poetry by Carrick Cross 